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🖭 VIRE: A global data platform to better understand viruses
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VIRE: A global data platform to better understand viruses
Researchers have developed VIRE, a database that integrates approximately 1.7 million viral genomes derived from more than 100,000 metagenomes worldwide. Metagenomic data is obtained by comprehensively sequencing all DNA present in an environment. This approach enables the recovery of genomic information from microorganisms and viruses that cannot be cultured in the laboratory.

Imagine your #Windows OS was infected by stubborn #virus and Bill Gates applies a hotfix patch without your consent. Happened to all of us at least once, am I right Melinda?

🧬 Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover
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Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover
In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma that viruses lack protein synthesis machinery, and blurs the line between cellular life and viruses.